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Saturday, 10 August 2013

Prague, Aug 8 (CTK) - The trial of five Czech women facing charges of
support to and promotion of the Resistance Women Unity (RWU) neo-Nazi
movement started Thursday.
The four women who came to the court Thursday refused to give testimony.

Their defence lawyers said the state attorney had read a different indictment than that available to them.
They said otherwise they would be ready to do so.
The police say the RWU is a women's branch of the National Resistance, an unofficial organisation of Czech neo-Nazis.
According to indictment, 15 women aged 22-23 were involved in the
organisation of events supporting the neo-Nazi movement and the
production and distribution of documents promoting the RWU at least
since the beginning of 2007.
They mainly backed the movement at the events staged for extreme right proponents, the indictment said.
The invitations and further documents were also published online. The
events were mainly held in Central Bohemia, but also in Decin, north
Bohemia, in 2007-2009.
The gained means were then used to back the Prisoners of War, who the imprisoned rightist extremists.
"The individual attacks were various. These were demonstrations,
their behaviour at them, the organisation of a children's day at which
neo-Nazi symbols were presented and the children assembled swastikas
from construction kits and the like," state attorney Richard Houdek
said.
Houdek said out of the 15 defendants, the court had halted the
prosecution of two women and separated another eight for a different
trial.
Resistance Women Unity was established in 2007.
It has vowed to contribute to the opposition to the system, which is,
as it claims, "deliberately against the long-term survival of white
families."
"We see it our duty as women to raise offspring aware of his or her
origin and of the need to protect our country and our culture heritage,"
RWU said on its website.
It ensues from its declarations that it wants to address women in the
pro-national movement, it promotes "the traditional family structure"
and is opposed to feminism.
Some RWU members were also active in the outlawed extremist Workers' Party (DS).
The trial will continue in September when legal experts will provide testimonies.